One way to merge in these changes is to pull them into a local branch for review, verifying the changes and then merge to back to master.

# Check out a new branch for integration
git checkout -b merge-requests/2172

# Fetch the merge request into this branch
git pull \
  git://gitorious.org/webos-internals/modifications.git \
  refs/merge-requests/2172

# Show the commits, assess they are okay
git log --pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit webos-1.3.1..merge-requests/2172

# To apply the changes to your branch:
git checkout webos-1.3.1
git merge merge-requests/2172
git push origin webos-1.3.1